How do you make maps?

[hunter_killer]

My friend and I want to learn how to use map editor.

Do you guys know the basics to map making, cause my friend and I want to learn.

 

[Wing Zero]

i know a lil bout them but just enough to make a regular rpg and mass map

 

[TrongaMonga]

Well, first of all, read the help file that comes with starcraft editor. It helps. It helped me, when I made, once, a damn map, with sounds, and stuff. In my language

Ah, well, I gave up after that... Too much work.

But read the manual, it'll help you get the basics, and a little beyond.

 

[Wing Zero]

manual sibnce when thay have a manual?

 

[tassadar920]

lol it's the help file...

I just experimented with things until i could make a map that was interesting, just have fun!

 

[BM)DaRkMeGaMaN]

just go to www.trickznstuff.net it teaches u how to do a lot of stuff dere

 

[YeoKeh]

Well you need to place a Starting point , Minerals , Vespian geysers , and a wall so you are not wide open.

 

[fritfrat]

all I did was look at other maps and figured out everything for myself.

Xtra Editor hater forever!! lol

 

[Lwek]

SCXE Liker! Atleast untill SF comes out

 

[FakeNameHere]

I use SCXE.but you shouldnt use it until you understand the reguler thing first.

 

[01356XO9]

just play around with it that's how i figured it out
the triggers are the hardest part to get down

 

[Lwek]

But once you get the triggers down, there's nothing that can stand in your way!

 

[FakeNameHere]

One thing that stoppened me was that you have to put locations. hahah that was teh only thing i didnt get. but the first time i used a trig that asked for location i got it. WOO that was the one ting man.

 

[01356XO9]

i got that part i just didn't know about the AI scripts

 

[desroches]

Well when you load up SC, you see the campaign editor. Open that and u get a new window loaded up. That is where all the map making work will be placed. On your left side you have at the top, a Mini map to show you map so far. Along the left side, Your Terrain,players 1-8 (Buildings, Units, Starting Location, and much more), Resources (Minerals, Gas, Other extras), and if you progress to a more advanced Editor, Extras. For yor first map, I suggest just making a melee map. MAke some obstacles (Hills, holes, ect.), then make minerals, and gas for each player u will have. After you finish that, you will making starting location (Which can be found in the left side throughout the 1-8 players.) for each player at their particualr starting spot. Start with tha, and work off it. Check some actual map making sites, and the people at BF's about trigger (used for use map settings maps) !!!! HOPE THIS HELPS!!!


-Desroches

 

[Lwek]

I agree with desroches!
You should start with a melee map first.
Then move on to editing a great fun map!
Then you get to start to make your own map.

Eg.
Coolest $ Map Ever
Lurker Defense Version Me
Defiler Defense

 

[desroches]

Hunter Killer are you even reading this?? Cuz you've only started this thread, and haven't posted anything since then!?!

-Desroches

 

[Darkzero190]

well i been readin ya post and i can make meele map with no prob i wanna make an rpg and i cant get the frakin triggers wen i open up a game that i dl from bnet i see like a million triggers and iam like wtf i cant make all those so iget discouraged and i just close it but i really wanna make a map does any 1 have a simple trigger map they can share?

 

[desroches]

Umm... Theres not really any Simple trigger maps. I started off with a mass type game. It was based on the game Final Fantasy IX. I made it so every one or two seconds another man would pop up around a base. I didn't get help from anyone, I just tried for weeks on end to try and find the right triggers that would make work!

I have now completed a bound map! And if you want to see massive triggers u should see that!!! tell me if you want to see it, and I'll put it up.

-Desroches

 

[Lwek]

Ok rpg maps are like the last maps you want to make. As said up there, start with editing a map like defense maps or madness maps. Rpgs are most likely protected and hard to understand if you have just started map making.